Strength comes in numbers and we understand the Redhill District and their fight with Loudoun Water. Allow us to join them we can gain strength to see the reservoir reopen to the people. How to help: 1 - PLEASE send emails to Chairman York and COPY the Supervisors. (Email addresses for all Supervisors are provided below) Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: Scott.York@loudoun.gov, Chairman Shawn.Williams@loudoun.gov, Vice Chairman Suzanne.Volpe@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Ralph.Buona@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Janet.Clarke@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Geary.Higgins@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Matt.Letourneau@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Ken.Reid@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Eugene.Delgaudio@loudoun.gov, Supervisor Please send an email from each adult in your home. We need a large number of emails to send a clear message. Use this for the Subject: RECONSIDER: Reject Eminent Domain and Red Hill Water Tower We have attached a template for the message. Please copy and paste any or all of the paragraphs or add your own text. Chairman York and Supervisors, I am deeply disappointed in your actions of 5 November regarding the Red Hill Road water towers. Your lack of honesty and transparency were evident: your vote had already gone to Loudoun Water with a prepared motion preapproved by the general counsel. We respectfully request you reconsider your vote during the Board meeting on 3 December. Chairman York was elected at-large to represent all the peoples of Loudoun County, not just Fred Jennings and Loudoun Water. We asked the Board to hold Loudoun Water accountable for their actions. As a not-for-profit organization working in the interest of the county, we expect Loudoun Water to be held to a higher standard. In misleading all of us, not just with the Red Hill Road application, but with years-long debacle in Selma and Raspberry Falls, and even the public relations catastrophe of Beaver Dam, Loudoun Water’s stewardship was not in the interest of our community, or the county. We expect better, and expected the Board to demand better. Five of you did not. At no time did the citizens who spoke to the Board representing Greene Mill Preserve, Evergreen Reserve, Martin’s Chase, Watson Road, Barkley Ridge, and Red Hill Road ever state or imply that one tower was better than two. We consistently requested that technology applied in neighboring counties be used here: lower the towers or put them underground. During the TLUC you repeatedly questioned the need for the towers to be nearly 200 feet high and understood that lower towers could be built and would not fundamentally change the hybrid system Loudoun Water already supports. Chairman York, you were chairman of the Board when it approved building two tanks at Brambleton and Dulles South. Why is this a concern to you now? Or is this simply a rationalization for flipping your position? I fail to comprehend how the impacts on local taxpayers can be so glibly ignored. Time and again Supervisors painted the No Red Hill Water Towers coalition as a bunch of nimbies who won’t accept water storage at this site. That is simply not the case. We repeatedly stressed that we could accept water storage at the Red Hill Road site, but that it should be at ground level not at almost 200 feet. The recent collapse of the sale of adjacent farmland to Willowsford by Mr. Rouse is evidence of the impact elevated water storage has on land values. For hard-working taxpayers who are just seeing property values rise above their mortgages, the November 5th decision is the worst of news because it merely submerges their mortgage once again. To further address the “viewshed” issue, I call into question Loudoun County Staff’s role in this entire affair. Their characterization of elevated storage as being in in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan is entirely questionable. Yes, the Comprehensive Plan calls for water storage in the Transition Policy Area (TPA) but it does not specify how that storage should be provided. However, the Comprehensive Plan does call for the TPA to be a “visual and spatial transition” from the urban east to the rural west. How can any normal person perceive building some of the tallest water towers in the County as being in accord with that latter statement? It is abundantly clear that the relationships between Loudoun Water, Loudoun County Staff and the Board of Supervisors are far too cozy, akin to more of a rubber-stamping mechanism rather than a robust vetting process to determine the validity of Loudoun Water’s applications. Chairman York, your vote, and those of the Board members who voted with you, condoned eminent domain. A move by our elected officials that gravely concerns all of us who elected you to represent us. We respectfully request that you reject use of eminent domain and reject the water towers on Red Hill Road. Sincerely,